Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hearst's best seller is the Lampoon's autumnal objective for 1919. And what the Lampoon's travesteurs do to Cosmopolitan's headliners is worthy of placement on Mr. Hearst's best comic pages...
...Amory's "Lady in Gray," a sprightly story of Cosmopolitan calibre, begins with a pick-up in a Pullman. It contains a mild satire on the modern best seller, and is easy and graceful...
...would base their compositions. Then Strauss began to develop them, instead of respecting them. That was nearly permissible; but then the French produced another type of music that was primarily instinctive, rather than logical. With difficulty the public began to appreciate and now Debussy is a "best-seller...
Thus, cabin'd, cribbed, confined, he sits down to enjoy the Monthly. Mr. Gregg writes clearly and definitely, but has he covered the field? Has he really found the "Best Seller," the best with the most modern conveniences? I see no account of Rex (or is it Regina) Beach's work; nor of the price of first serial rights disposed of to the great Eastern publishing houses; second rights to the Indiana Humble Bee, for example; sometimes third serial rights in the far Northwest; rights for dramatic production; rights for the cheap reprint to be given away with a pound...
...became of that American boy who danced so well and over whose head the plate was smashed. Was his skull fractured? And what manner of man was Mr. Kornfield's Sergius, so stirred by a chromo, competent analyst of Oscar Wilde's tremendous ballad, victim of the Sicilian fruit seller and the New York policeman? It's very vivid painting of New York, very real and very unreal. Do not all these story tellers need to ponder and take to heart the doctrine which Mr. Skinner so clearly sets forth...